#Not1More Deportation

Uno por Uno

We organize to stop deportations through a combination of legal advocacy, political pressure, storytelling, and community organizing. Since January 2013, we have successfully helped families stop nearly 100 deportations. If you or your loved one are in detention or have an active deportation case, call us at 602-252-1283 or email jovana@puenteaz.org to schedule an intake.
Please sign our open petitions to stop deportations at http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/portfolio-type/open-cases/

Families Reunited by the Power of an Organized Community

Local and State Campaigns to Stop the Enforcement Machine

From introducing the Arizona Trust Act to break police-ICE collaborations, to fighting for a municipal ID in the City of Phoenix, to taking action against Arpaio’s workplace raids, we work to stop deportations by ending out-of-control enforcement.
Check out our campaign for #ICEFREEAZ

National Campaign for Administrative Relief

We have been at the forefront of the #Not1More campaign’s national efforts to pressure President Obama to take immediate action to stop deportations through granting administrative relief to our entire community. We have #ShutDownICE across the state of Arizona, gone on hunger strike in front of the Phoenix ICE Field Office and the White House, marched 60-miles to where our loved ones are incarcerated at the Eloy Detention Center, and advocated for ourselves to our supposed representatives within the Beltway. We have shifted the conversation to not IF the President will grant us immediate relief from deportations but WHEN and will continue to fight for our entire community.

11

Dec

“I came here to Arizona today to say that we must end the shameful practice of mass immigrant detention centers in our country,” O’Malley said as he stood outside a jail run by the controversial Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio. “This is not in keeping with the United State of ...

03

Dec

Families and immigrant advocates marched through downtown to demand an end to mass deportations. The group started at the capital and made stops at the Phoenix Police Department and ICE detention center.
Daniela Jimenez marched alongside her mother. The elementary school student’s ...

20

Jul

Puente Human Rights Movement had outgrown their meeting space. Here’s how they raised $100,000 in six weeks to purchase a building of their own.
ON ANY GIVEN MONDAY EVENING, pink streaks from another spectacular Phoenix sunset light up the sky as cars pull into the Puente Human Rights Campus, a former church and ...

08

May

Op-ed by Maria Rodriguez
Mother's Day is supposed to be a time to celebrate the bond between mothers and their children. But because immigration agents are working with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, it's too often still a holiday filled with uncertainty for Phoenix-area moms like me.
A week before Mother's Day last ...

28

Apr

27

Apr

For Immediate Release
Four people arrested in civil disobedience outside of Arpaio’s contempt trial last Thursday reported that ICE agents are still stationed inside the Maricopa County Fourth Avenue Jail. One of the arrestees was interrogated by an ICE agent, even though she is only facing minor misdemeanors for blocking traffic ...

23

Apr

For immediate release
Today, hundreds marched from the Arizona State Capitol to the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse, demanding an end to police-ICE collaboration in the state of Arizona. Outside of Arpaio’s contempt hearing, four people were arrested blocking an intersection in an act of civil disobedience, holding banners that said ...

23

Apr

More than 200 demonstrators gathered at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix before marching toward the Fourth Avenue Jail on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of when Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law, in protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

05

Jan

A federal judge Monday blocked one of the most well-known tools used to crack down on illegal immigration by the man who calls himself America's toughest sheriff.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio must stop enforcing Arizona's identify theft laws, U.S. District Judge David Campbell ruled Monday, granting ...

22

Nov

By Carlos Garcia
I watched the President’s announcement in a packed room, filled with people who have been putting their bodies on the line to fight for expanded deportation relief. While many advocates in D.C. are claiming victory, no one in that room was celebrating. Even the eyes of those who ...

21

Nov

PHOENIX — Scores of immigrants and their families clapped politely as they watched President Barack Obama unveil long-awaited steps to temporarily shield millions of undocumented parents of U.S.-born children and legal residents from deportation, while others wept for family members and ...

18

Nov

AVONDALE, Ariz. — Mexican mother of four Norma Bernal was taking a stroll beside the dusty rail tracks that carve through this sprawling Phoenix suburb when she was stopped and questioned by local police.
Living in the country illegally and unable to provide identification, she panicked, gave a false name and ...

05

Nov

By Carlos Garcia
The balance may have changed on Capitol Hill, but in our neighborhoods the weight of the boot on our neck feels just as heavy regardless of what color tie the person standing on us is wearing.
A few months ago when President Obama decided to once again postpone changing ...

17

Apr

When José Valdez talks about his son Jaime, his eyes shine.
“He is one of the sweetest young men you’ll ever meet,” José said on Wednesday through an interpreter. “I don’t say that just because I’m his father. He’s a young man who likes to help people. He thinks about humanity. ...

15

Apr

Op-ed by Cynthia Diaz
“Cynthia! They’re taking your mom!” The sound of my dad’s shout woke me up at seven in the morning.
I ran to the front door of our Arizona home that morning, where 10 agents in black uniforms surrounded my mom. Already handcuffed in ...

08

Apr

A group of three people and their supporters began camping out in front of the White House on Saturday, coinciding with a national day of action against continued deportations by Obama’s administration. And today, they’ve started an indefinite hunger strike.
Jose Valdez, a 55-year-old construction worker from Arizona already knows ...

08

Apr

WASHINGTON -- Three immigration activists began a hunger strike on Tuesday outside the White House to demand their loved ones -- a mother, a son and a fiance -- be released from detention.
The protesters have both a narrow objection to the Obama administration's deportation policy and a far broader goal. ...

06

Apr

The young woman jams her fist into the palm of her hand.
One by one she cracks her knuckles. First one hand. Then the other. The noise sounds like frozen carrots breaking.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
Twenty-two-year-old Noemi Romero, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, cracks ...

05

Apr

PHOENIX (AP) — Immigration advocates and supporters rallied Saturday in cities across the country in a renewed effort to push President Barack Obama to put a freeze on deportations.
Organizers of the more than 50 planned "Day of Action" demonstrations said ...

01

Apr

After being deported to Mexico from his home in Arizona earlier this year, Jaime Valdez joins us to detail his attempt today to re-enter the United States. Valdez says he was deported in retaliation for a hunger strike that his family took part in at ...

01

Apr

Two undocumented immigrants who say they were expelled from the United States in retaliation for their activism are crossing back into the country through the legal port of entry at Nogales, Ariz., this week, hoping to fight their deportation cases through the legal system.
The demonstration is the latest in a ...

08

Mar

PHOENIX, ARIZ. — The 9-to-5 crowd had thinned out by the time a mostly Latino crowd arrived outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center here to mark the end of a 15-day hunger strike this week.
Weakened ...

26

Feb

Phoenix police on Tuesday night broke up an encampment of activists on hunger strike to protest deportations, arresting two participants, according to witnesses. That same night, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported the son of one of the hunger strikers.
“ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their ...

18

Feb

Several people whose family members have been in immigrant detention centers for months, or even years, are on a hunger strike outside the Phoenix Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.
The hunger strike started last night, and they plan to stay there without food for the next two weeks.
Read the complete article ...

The Puente Human Rights Movement is a grassroots migrant justice organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. We develop, educate, and empower migrant communities to protect and defend our families and ourselves.